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This newly updated edition of a well-known work explores a pair of modern science's most fundamental discoveries: the asymmetric DNA helix and the overthrow of parity (left-right symmetry) in particle physics. Absorbing and thought-provoking, "The New Ambidextrous Universe" was written bynbsp; Martin Gardner, one of Dover's most popular authors, .

Martin Gardner is the author of more than seventy books on a vast range of topics including "Did Adam & Eve Have Navels?", "Calculus Made Easy", & "The Annotated Alice". He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Preface to the Dover Edition

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Mirrors

Lineland and Flatland

Solidland

Magic

Art, Music, Poetry, and Numbers

Galaxies, Suns, and Planets

Plants and Animals

Asymmetry in Animals

The Human Body

The Sinistral Minority

Crystals

Molecules

Carbon

Living Molecules

The Origin of Life

The Origin of Asymmetry

The Fourth Dimension

The Ozma Problem

Mach's Shock

Parity

Antiparticles

The Fall of Parity

Neutrinos

Mr. Split

The Fall of Time Invariance

Where's the Antimatter?

What Happened to the Monopoles?

The Arrows of Time

Entropy

Time-Reversed Worlds

Time-Reversed Persons and Particles

Early Theories of Matter

Spin

Superstrings

Further Readings

Answers to Exercises

Index

Notes

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